The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-02-18
~EwS ANN OTHER vOTINGS.

The jail at MurfreesborO. Tenn, burned
down ou Sunday morning. and three men in
the cages on the lower floor perished in the
flames
On Saturday evening Henry Bodehimer
and his partner William Mercier. of Bossier
parish. La, became involved in a quarrel. in
the course of which Bodenhimer shot and
killed Mercier.
Mrs. w. w. Lane, of Meadville, Pa, on
Saturday attempted suicide by throwing
herself in Mill Run. She has long been a
sufferer from spinal disease, which caused
temporary alteration of mind.
In the Bedford county court the iurv in
I the case of Reather charged with burning
the barn of j. Stuckey. retdrned verdict of
not guilty. The charge OF poisoning his
horses will come up at a fut, r court
I "A passenger train on the Cleveland and
/ Pi5tsburg railroad went through a bridge Just
south Of the former city. on Friday morning
/ No lives were lost, but the bagga gemaster
and express messenger were badly cut and
/ shaken up.
Harry Davis, aged o. of Shafersviile.
/ Huntingdon county, had never tasted liquor
until Monday. His mother was buried on
Sunday To drown his grief he began drink
ing heavily. On Tuesday he died in a
drunken stupor.
! Miss Josephine Mackey, of Louisville,
KY. while kneeIinR in front of fire in her
bed room. fell over in fit, aud when she
recovered consciousness her clothing was in
blaZ.. Her brother hurried to her rescue,
but she had inhaled the flames, and died
soon after from the eff cts of it.
"A fiendish attempt to wreck i passen-
ger train was discovered last Friday morning
on the Panhandle road, few miles west of
/ Steubenville. A tie had been placed across
the track, but IT was discovered by the en-
( gineer in time to stop the train, which was
running at the rate or twenty miles an hour
Mr.. Louis Bqche died at bis residence
In Louisville, KY, February II. In the
/ eighty second year of his age. His father
was the grand-on of Benjamin Franklin,
and the younger Bache was named Louis by
his great grandfather afCer Louis XVI of
France on account of friendship of long
standing. The elder Bache was a colonial
soldier and a man of much prominence.
Mrs. NJ. W. Smith resident OF Balm
| bridge. Pa. visited her smoke house on
Saturday to replenish the fire for smoking
the meat While inside the building the
door became accidentally closed, and the
woman was almost suffocated with the
smoke when she was discovered by a
neighbor who opened the door Just as she
had lost consciousness, and rescued her
from impending death
The State Board of Health of PenusyI-
vania has sent out a circular urging all per-
fO ho
spread of smallpox in the City of New
York at the present time and its simulta-
neOus appearance in other adjoining States,
as well as in portions of our own Common
wealth. which indicate an extensive diffu-
sion of the seeds OF this disease ana an at
mcsDheric condition favorable to their ger
mination.'
"A cyclone stTu0k Louisville a small
village few miles west Of A llance on Fri
dag last. Seven dwelling houses and
woolen factor were blown down. The
Catholic Church and sem mary, both large
/ and costly structures, were partially de-
/ strOyed. A large brick building, occupied
1 by j. Thurins as a drug store, was also
blown down, ana not a chimney Is left stand
ing in the place. Several1 narrow escapes
we're made. The loss will amount to over
$1,000
The American Cardinals arrived n Rome
Sunday evening Father o. ConneI II, rector
of the American College, met them at Genoa.
They were met at the depot by Archbishops
Cave, of Melbourne, and Kirby, OF the Irish
College Bishop Kane, of Richmond Mgrs
Callahan, S,oner, Straneito, Count MuccioIi,
Vice Rector Deasy and many prominent
laymen. While at Paris, Cardinal Gibbons
was guest at the seminary of ST. Sulpice.-
He will MAKE his home in the American Col
lege, being assiged TO the apartments former
ly occupied by the late Cardinal McCIoskey.
"A railroad and civil engineer have
been for some time at work perfecting a
new system of heating passenger cars for
the Allegheny Valley Railroad Company
The plan Is to pump hot air from the fire
box of the locomotive along pipes running
through the cars in the same way as hot air
for the brakes is obtained This would
prevent the possibility of cars taking fire
from stoves or passengers being scalded
by steam pipes. in case of a wreck. The
plans will soon be submitted to the officers
Of the company and an experiment srranged
In excavatibg in Ross Park Williams
department building, workmen came upon
five human skeletons, at depth Of three
feet IN the ground. One was thato a female,
and from the skull depended heavy growth
of light blonde hair, eighteen inches in lenth.
and as fresh and healthy looking as if it we're
growing on a living head. In the interior
of one of the skulls were two copper cents
one bearing the date of 1913, and the other
of the issue of 1920. 1t is probable they had
been used to close tie eyes cf the person
when he died and in time had lllen through
y the eye cavities into the skull.
For three months the residel Is of an
, aristocl attic part of Cleveland, o., have been
, annoy ed by burglar. Women refused tC
remain at their homes after night, and
: strong men armed themselves with self
! acting pistols On Saturday night the police
arrested Sidney Walsh, twenty three years
old, and his wife. They live in a fashionable
, street, and next door to house that Walsh
had burglarized. Scattered about Walsh's
home the police found g 500 worth of Uic-
lures. furniture, jewelry and brio a-brac
, that he had stolen. He was married last
/ November. and the wedding ring he gave
his wife was stolen. The wife was also sent
= 20 jail to keep him company. She is a comely
young woman and has respectable relatives
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